THE NE..W YORKER 99 Sutherland's husband, was character- S SH ' :s ized bJ'precision and the other gifts of LIKE NOTHING EL E IN 'In T- an expert orchestral accompanist. -WINTHROP SARGEANT JAZZ CONC R. T 5 H ear Today, Gone Tomorrow ] ;.t\ZZ has always been bedevilled by certain audiences-the socIal-pro- testers, the Beats, and the hard thinkers who use the music as a weapon or smoke screen, and the eccentrics who spend lifetimes squabbling over the merits of spent musicians and unearthing the matrix numbers of forgotten, third-ratt recordings. The chatty illiteracy of the occasional bulletins published by these archeologists calls to mind the nudist magazines whose editorials are apt to lead off, "Hi ya, skinfolks!" One rea- i son for this unsettling condition, though, I is the music itself, whIch compulsively changes too much and tou fast. No soon- er has a style or schoo] begun to attract an audience (thIs usua11y takes two or three years) than a new style or school smothers it. First, as the prospectus for ] azz 201 might read, came the primi- tIves (the rural singers and instrumen- talists) . They were followed by the classicists (New Orleans and Dixie- land), who were toppJed hy the ro- mantics (the first great soloist ). These were supplanted by the ntoclassicists ( the bIg swing bands), who went down before the neo-romantics, or first mod- erns (bebop). Out of the moderns grew the avant-garde (abstract jazz) and, indirectly from that, the-well, neo- avant-garde (thIrd-stream music). One trouble with these changes of skirt length is their incredsing frequency. In the past fifteen vears, jazz hds suffered two jolting and thorough revolution (bebop, abstract jazz). Apprentice mu- sicians, watching idol after idol diminish, are left with half-formed, polyglot styles, and the often gifted idols are un- employable at the advanced age of thir- ty-fi ve. Record companies, trying to kLep up, concentrate on the New, and so force the very thing they pursue to ac- celerate. Thus the jazz student who grew up In the stable old days of 1940 has had, since his first enthusiasms, tu absorb Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gil- lespie, then Lennie T ristano, then the Modern Jazz Quartet, then Charlie Mingus and Sonny Rollins, then John Coltr dne and Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman. And while the rug is repeat- edly pulled from under him, he is asked to be alert, broadminded, judicious, sympathetic, and eager. Consider the concert given last Thursday at the Carnegie Recital Hal1 I B , " NCARE 8 ,. DLC . (8) \ "r. ß .<... ø", ---- I ,3 .# .,.., " "", v "": " "",y.- 'v/ 7 /' A , " ,;"{ :tv "I-. \ ;, ! , ",ø .v . * \, .' ' t ":. <'\ > l l, , /lt yþ " " t.,\ w } <1\" " \ ". 'IìP \ 1;, { v-. , /" *'... ,t ( ".. .& ",:., .. . ' j, 'f' I G Never has there been such a light weIght shIrt as the Everglaze Bancare@ DLG. MetIculously taIlored of extra-long staple all Pima cotton it resIsts wrinkles, can be washed, drip-dried, spin-dried or tumble-drIed, and worn without ironing! Available in a wide selectIon of collar styles all with short sleeves. $4.50. Write for the name of the fIne store nearest you Jayson, Inc. 390 Fifth A venue New York 18, N. Y.